Order of Service: Sun, August 14, 2016 "Poetry Service"

Date of Service: 
August 14, 2016
 
                  August 14, 2016
The temple bell stops
But the sound keeps coming
Out of the flowers ~ Basho
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*Gathering Hymn                                Find A Stillness
                                                               Find a stillness, hold a stillness, let the stillness carry me.
                                                               Find the silence, hold the silence, let the silence carry me.
                                                               In the spirit, by the spirit, with the spirit giving power,
                                                               I will find true harmony.
 
                                                              Seek the essence, hold the essence, let the essence carry me.
                                                              Let me flower, help me flower, watch me flower, carry me.
                                                              In the spirit, by the spirit, with the spirit giving power,
                                                              I will find true harmony.
 
Welcome                                             Rima Snyder
 
Prelude                                               An die Musik (To Music)                                                                   Franz Schubert
                                                             Lynn Angebranndt, cello
 
                                                             You lovely art, in how many grey hours,
                                                             When life’s mad whirl beset me,
                                                             Have you kindled my heart to warm love,
                                                             Have you transported me into a better world!
                                                             Oft has a sigh flowing out from your harp,
                                                             A sweet, divine harmony from you
                                                            Unlocked to me the heaven of better times,
                                                            You lovely Art, I thank you for it!!
 
Chalice Lighting                              Katie Malich
 
*Opening Hymn                              #66 When the Summer Sun is Shining
                                                           (We will sing verses 1 and 3)
 
*Covenant                                        Love is the doctrine of this church.
                                                           The quest for truth is its sacrament,
                                                           And service is its prayer.
                                                           To dwell together in peace,
                                                           To seek knowledge in freedom,
                                                           To serve humankind in fellowship,
                                                           Thus do we covenant with each other.
 
*Hymn of Praise                             Ours be the poems of all tongues
                                                          All things of loveliness and worth.
                                                          All arts, all ages and all songs,
                                                          One life, one beauty on the earth.
 
Offering for the Westside Food Bank
 
Poems for All Ages                        My Paradise, I Remember That Summer                                     Jacqueline Melgar
                                                          Two “Where I’m From” poems                                                         Nick, Rima Snyder
 
Song of Blessing                            Go Now in Peace
                                                          Go now in peace, go now in peace,
                                                          May the spirit of love surround you
                                                           As you go, as you go on your way.
 
Community News
 
Pulpit Message                               Right Relations Committee
                                                           826 LA                                                                                                      Danielle Perez
 
Offertory                                           Song Without Words, Op. 109                                                       Felix Mendelssohn
 
Reading                                          Ode To Silence                                                                                            Mark Belletini
 
Silent Meditation
 
Responsive Reading                  #646 The Larger Circle                                                                            Wendell Berry
                                                       
                                                      Music and Poetry, the Language of Spirit                                               Rima Snyder
 
The Meadow Doesn’t Know About the Stock Market                                                                        Elizabeth Alexander
                 text by George Ella Lyon
 
Come Soon                                                                                                                                               Elizabeth Alexander
                 text by Lilian Moore
 
*Closing Hymn                            #330 The Arching Sky of Morning Grows
 
*Benediction
 
Postlude                                        The Poet’s Harp                                                                                 Felix Mendelssohn
                                                        From Songs Without Words, Op. 38, No. 3
 
Extinguishing the Chalice
 
*Please stand in body or in spirit
 
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Greeters:                                        Dwight Flowers, Katie Malich & Jila Tayefehnowrooz
Ushers:                                           Bonnie Brae & Michael Young
Coffee:                                            Linda van Ligten & Jila Tayefehnowrooz
Welcome Table:                            Carol Ring
Bookstore:                                     Mark Warkentin
 
Service Notes
 
Today 40% of our non-pledge offering will go to 826 LA: The Writing Center, a non-profit
organization dedicated to helping children and young adults develop writing skills and to helping
teachers inspire their students to write.
 
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Letter To a Friend
by Lillian Moore
 
Everything is lusting
for light,
thrusting
up
up
splitting the earth,
opening flaring fading,
seed
into shoot
bud
into flower
nothing
beyond its hour.
Come soon.
The apple blossom has melted
like
spring snow.
The lilac
changed the air
surprising
every breath.
Now
low in the field
wild strawberries fatten.
Come soon.
It's a matter of
life.
And Death.
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The Meadow Does Not Know
by George Ella Lyon
 
The meadow does not know
about the stock market.
Today she is worth
exactly what she was worth
yesterday, a year ago, at creation.
I don’t mean property value,
taxable assets. I mean
milkweed and copper moths
honeybees, cow vetch,
king snakes. Meadow life
is not money. What rises
and falls here are stems
and flowers, leaves and fruit.
No zigzag line of profit and panic
but the great wheel turning.
Here God gives of her
extravagance and here, like
flicker, viceroy, dragonfly
we come into our inheritance.
 
http://www.georgeellalyon.com
 
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